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2 total messages Started by LANGER STEVEN C Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:41

#115

Author: LANGER STEVEN C
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:41

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I'm using an Indigo with IRIX 4.0

the code
		buf = ctime ((const time_t *) time);
		printf ("buf=%s\n", buf);

always prints, no matter how often I call it, something like;

	Sat. Jan. 10, 1989 12:43:01

(this may be the wrong order of data as I'm typeing this from 
memory). The point is, typeing "date"
 at the command line gives the correct
info. Why doesn't the code?

thanks in advance, steve



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Re: IRIX time

#121

Author: Dave Olson
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:40

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In <1993Jan22.144157.3002@vela.acs.oakland.edu> sglanger@vela.acs.oakland.edu (LANGER STEVEN C) writes:

| I'm using an Indigo with IRIX 4.0
| 
| the code
| 		buf = ctime ((const time_t *) time);
| 		printf ("buf=%s\n", buf);
| 
| always prints, no matter how often I call it, something like;
| 
| 	Sat. Jan. 10, 1989 12:43:01
| 
| (this may be the wrong order of data as I'm typeing this from 
| memory). The point is, typeing "date"

As typed, the code is bogus.  First, the variable 'time' will conflict
with the system call, probably giving link errors.  Since you don't
show us how 'time' was initialized, we can't help you much more, but
it seems very likely that either it was never initialized, or done
incorrectly.

Something more like this is what you want:
	time_t t;
	time(&t); (or t = time(NULL);)
	buf = ctime(&t);
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